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the only hoax i believe in by myfirstplane
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
28 Jul 2020
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"She doesn't allow herself to think the words, though she feels her kingdom coming undone. Every brick, replaced with Adora - as if she isn't the sand the bricks were made of in the first place.
This is surrender. It is Catra allowing a hoax to settle over herself like a thin blanket."
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After saving Glimmer, Catra sits broken in a holding room - and she thinks about Adora.
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28 Jul 2020
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at the end we'll start again by strangehunger
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
27 Jun 2020
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Adora dances through the strands of time programmed into the system. The first week, she jumps forward just a year or two — 2042, 2043, just before the breakup, back when they were still happy. In 2051, she sports the short, choppy haircut that was popular at the time. In 2066, it’s long, and dyed at the tips. She’s twenty two, over and over and over again, each weekend spent experiencing that age right on the cusp of adulthood as she weaves in and out of time periods, searching for Catra.
In the summer of 2044, she wanders past a sports bar and sees her own face, sweaty and breathless in an interview. Adora remembers this video — it was taken just before she received her first Olympic gold.
Adora keeps walking. There’s no way Catra would choose to be here.
________Adora has never had much interest in the Etheria program, a virtual reality simulation in which those on the verge of death and dementia can relive their glory days, dancing side by side with the consciousnesses of the deceased — but when she runs into a familiar face while visiting a dearly departed friend, she finds herself tumbling back into a romance she thought she had lost decades ago.
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28 Jun 2020
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"We'd play tricks on Kyle, stay up late whispering about... you know, whatever."
Twenty years. The nights before, during, and after.
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12 Jun 2020
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They stay that way for a long time, Catra’s face tucked into Adora’s shoulder, Adora gently cradling Catra’s head. Adora is careful not to hug Catra too hard or make her feel restrained, anticipating the moment that Catra will start to pull away — but Catra doesn’t. She hangs on so tightly it hurts, her claws digging through Adora’s jacket and into her back, latching into her like she did when she was a kitten and didn’t know how much her claws could hurt. Adora tries not to wince, tries not to move a single muscle, worried that if she does the spell will break and Catra will struggle away, appalled at having shown weakness.
But Catra doesn’t let go. And so neither does Adora.
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10 Jun 2020
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Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other, we know who our enemies are. We know.
Catra and Adora, trying to navigate their post war relationship and inevitably getting lost along the way
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02 Jun 2020